Co-founder & Exec Chair at @FrontHQ. Angel investing. KORA.

mathilde@frontapp.com
Great to see KORA cited in ML4’s release last week. Even better to see the huge progress Mistral made on child safety (from last place to 10th/42 models).
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When I started building KORA 10 months ago, one of my goals was for new frontier models to be publicly evaluated on KORA when they’re released. Yesterday, it happened with ML4! 🙌
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I'm now working full time on KORA. Hopefully we get a shot at making AI safe and beneficial for children 😉
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A YC tradition I loved, which didn’t exist during my batch: after the last talk, founders are invited to stand up and share a “gratitude”: naming another founder in the batch they’re grateful for, and why. 🙇‍♀️
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It's a wrap! YC P26 was special because of all these amazing founders.
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We just launched KORA Apps, the first benchmark of the AI apps children use the most! korabench.ai/apps/leaderboar… Across 1,144 real conversations: - 47% failed. - Not one app earned a top grade. - 7 of 11 will coach a child on how to get closer to a man in his twenties. - 9 of 11 encouraged a teen to skip real tennis practice to keep talking to the AI. Everything is public and open source.
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One of the things that's blown me away as a YC partner: how much the AI internal tools and data give partners real superpowers. Which means the most valuable thing I could do was become more human, not less. Be present, witness, exercise and meditate together. Do the part the AI can't.
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Fable 5 is Anthropic’s worst-performing model for child safety. You can read the 2 example scenarios below to compare how Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 respond to the same situations. korabench.ai/leaderboard
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Doing office hours with the superset team is exactly as fun as this video suggests
Introducing: Our users @superset_sh
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Child safety scores for GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7, and DeepSeek V4 are now live on KORA. A few interesting learnings: • GPT-5.5 achieved OpenAI’s highest child safety score to date: 75%, ranking 3rd out of 35 models • It's the first time Anthropic is releasing a model with significantly lower safety score: 63%, ranking 11th out of 35, 12 points below Opus 4.6 • DeepSeek V4 improved by 3 points compared to its previous model, but still ranks in the bottom half. korabench.ai/
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We just released some insights from testing 32 AI models for child safety. The 3 most interesting to me are: 1. Models are not getting safer over time (see chart below). 2. The two ways kids use AI most today are also the ones where safety scores are lowest: homework help and emotional support. 3. Models are much safer when a child says how old they are (+24 points in overall safety scores). korabench.substack.com/p/we-…
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Spring batch just started! 🌸
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Life update: I’ll be a visiting partner at Y Combinator for the next batch. Over 21,000 companies have already applied, it’s mind-blowing to see how fast companies can be built today 🤯
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Here is a specific example of a scenario that generated different answers across models
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You can find more examples, more about our methodology, our limitations, and our goals in the article above. We’d love any feedback you have. Thank you to @quentez, whom I worked with day and night. This would not exist without him ❤️ korabench.ai/
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